The Arcus Probe Mission

Randall Smith; Jon Arenberg; Marshall Bautz; Ehud Behar; Dolon Bhattacharyya; Jay Bookbinder; Joel Bregman; Laura Brenneman; Nancy Brickhouse; G. Esra Bulbul; Vadim Burwitz; Joseph Bushman; Peter Cheimets; Elisa Costantini; Casey Deroo; Benjamin D. Donovan; Abraham Falcone; Brian Fleming; Adam Foster; Kevin France; Peter Friedrich; Luigi Gallo; Catherine E. Grant; H. Moritz Günther; Daryl Haggard; Ralf K. Heilmann; Sarah Heine; Butler Hine; David Huenemoerder; Jelle Kaastra; Igor Kreykenbohmn; Sibasish Laha; Pamela Marcum; Herman Marshall; Randall McEntaffer; Missagh Mehdipour; Eric D. Miller; Jon M. Miller; Kirpal Nandra; Nicholas Nell; Michael Nowak; Frits Paerels; Katya Poppenhaeger; Andrew Ptak; Agata Rozanska; Jenna Samra; Jeremy Sanders; Mark L. Schattenburg; Norbert S. Schulz; Leroy Mark Sparr; Pasquale Temi; Todd M. Tripp; Lynne Valencic; Joern Wilms; Stephen Walker; David Wilson; Scott Wolk

doi:10.1117/12.3022452

21 August 2024 The Arcus Probe Mission

Randall Smith, Jon Arenberg, Marshall Bautz, Ehud Behar, Dolon Bhattacharyya, Jay Bookbinder, Joel Bregman, Laura Brenneman, Nancy Brickhouse, G. Esra Bulbul, Vadim Burwitz, Joseph Bushman, Peter Cheimets, Elisa Costantini, Casey Deroo, Benjamin D. Donovan, Abraham Falcone, Brian Fleming, Adam Foster, Kevin France, Peter Friedrich, Luigi Gallo, Catherine E. Grant, H. Moritz Günther, Daryl Haggard, Ralf K. Heilmann, Sarah Heine, Butler Hine, David Huenemoerder, Jelle Kaastra, Igor Kreykenbohmn, Sibasish Laha, Pamela Marcum, Herman Marshall, Randall McEntaffer, Missagh Mehdipour, Eric D. Miller, Jon M. Miller, Kirpal Nandra, Nicholas Nell, Michael Nowak, Frits Paerels, Katya Poppenhaeger, Andrew Ptak, Agata Rozanska, Jenna Samra, Jeremy Sanders, Mark L. Schattenburg, Norbert S. Schulz, Leroy Mark Sparr, Pasquale Temi, Todd M. Tripp, Lynne Valencic, Joern Wilms, Stephen Walker, David Wilson, Scott Wolk

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Proceedings Volume 13093, Space Telescopes and Instrumentation 2024: Ultraviolet to Gamma Ray; 1309326 (2024) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.3022452
Event: SPIE Astronomical Telescopes + Instrumentation, 2024, Yokohama, Japan

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The Arcus Probe mission addresses a wide range of Astro2020 Decadal and NASA Science Mission Directorate Priority science areas, and is designed to explore astrophysical feedback across all mass scales. Arcus' three baseline science goals include: (i) Characterizing the drivers of accretion-powered feedback in supermassive black holes, (ii) Quantifying how feedback at all scales drives galaxy evolution and large-scale structure, including the tenuous cosmic web, and (iii) Analyzing stellar feedback from exoplanetary to galactic scales, including its effects on exoplanet environments targeted by current and future NASA missions. These science goals, along with a robust General Observer program, will be achieved using a mission that provides a high-sensitivity soft (10-60Å) X-ray spectrometer (XRS), working simultaneously with a co-aligned UV spectrometer (UVS; 970-1580Å). Arcus enables compelling baseline science and provides the broader astronomy community a revolutionary tool to characterize the full ionization range of warm and hot plasmas - including hydrogen, helium, and all abundant metals - in the Universe, from the halos of galaxies and clusters to the coronae of stars.

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Randall Smith, Jon Arenberg, Marshall Bautz, Ehud Behar, Dolon Bhattacharyya, Jay Bookbinder, Joel Bregman, Laura Brenneman, Nancy Brickhouse, G. Esra Bulbul, Vadim Burwitz, Joseph Bushman, Peter Cheimets, Elisa Costantini, Casey Deroo, Benjamin D. Donovan, Abraham Falcone, Brian Fleming, Adam Foster, Kevin France, Peter Friedrich, Luigi Gallo, Catherine E. Grant, H. Moritz Günther, Daryl Haggard, Ralf K. Heilmann, Sarah Heine, Butler Hine, David Huenemoerder, Jelle Kaastra, Igor Kreykenbohmn, Sibasish Laha, Pamela Marcum, Herman Marshall, Randall McEntaffer, Missagh Mehdipour, Eric D. Miller, Jon M. Miller, Kirpal Nandra, Nicholas Nell, Michael Nowak, Frits Paerels, Katya Poppenhaeger, Andrew Ptak, Agata Rozanska, Jenna Samra, Jeremy Sanders, Mark L. Schattenburg, Norbert S. Schulz, Leroy Mark Sparr, Pasquale Temi, Todd M. Tripp, Lynne Valencic, Joern Wilms, Stephen Walker, David Wilson, and Scott Wolk "The Arcus Probe Mission", Proc. SPIE 13093, Space Telescopes and Instrumentation 2024: Ultraviolet to Gamma Ray, 1309326 (21 August 2024); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.3022452

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